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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 




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STATUTES ENACTED 

BY THE 

Trustees of Columbia College 

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 




NEW YORK 

Printed for the College 

May, 1890 






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CONTENTS. 











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Trustees of Columbia College v 


Statutes: 


Part I. — General Provisions 1-7 


Of the President . 








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Of the Faculties . 








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Of the Library . 

Of Other Officers of the College 

Of Students 








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Of Free Scholarships . 
Of Foundations . 








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Of Commencements . 








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Of Vacations 








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Part II.— School of Arts 








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Of the President . 








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Of the Board of the College 








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Of Admission 








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Of the Course of Study 








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Of Degrees .... 








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Part III.— School of Mines . 








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Of the Faculty . 

Of Admission .... 








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. Of the Course of Study 








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Of Degrees .... 
Part IV.— School of Law 








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Of the Warden . 








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Of the Faculty . 
Of Admission 








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Of the Course of Study 








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Of Degrees .... 
Part v.— School of Political Scienc 


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Of the Faculty . 

Of Admission .... 








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Of the Course of Study 








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Of Degrees .... 








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CONTENTS, 



Part VI. — The School of Philosophy 

Of the Faculty . 

Of Admission 

Of the Course of Study 

Of Degrees .... 
Part VII. — The University Council 

Constitution . . 

Duties 

Part VIII.— Degrees 

Part IX.— Of Amendments . 



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TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



NAMES. RESIDENCES. 

Hamilton- Fish, LL.D., Chairman of the Boards 251 East 17th St. 

William C. Schermerhorn 49 West 23d Street. 

Morgan Dix, S.T.D., D.C.L 27 West 25th Street. 

Samuel Blatchford, LL.D Washington, D. C. 

Stephen P. Nash, LL.D 11 West 19th Street. 

Joseph W. Harper 562 Fifth Avenue. 

Charles A. Silliman 25 Whitehall Street. 

Frederick A. Schermerhorn 61 University Place. 

Gerard Beekman, Clerk of the Board 5 East 34th Street. 

Office, T49 Broadway. 
Abram N. Littlejohn, D.D., LL.D. (Cantab.), Garden City, L. I. 

Edward Mitchell 31 East 50th Street. 

W. Bayard Cutting 18 West 57th Street. 

Talbot W. Chambers, S.T.D 70 West 36th Street. 

Seth Low, LL.D 30 East 64th Street. 

George L. Rives 12 East 37th Street. 

Lenox Smith 19 William Street. 

George L. Peabody, M.D 57 West 38th Street. 

John Crosby Brown 36 East 37th Street. 

Charles M. Da Costa 29 East 38th Street. 

Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. (Cantab.) . . 160 West 59th Street. 

William H. Draper, M.D 19 East 47th Street. 

Marvin R. Vincent, S.T.D 136 East 37th Street. 

John B. Pine 50 Pine Street, 



John McLean Nash, Treasurer 67 Wall Street. 



STATUTES. 



PART L 
GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE PRESIDENT. 

§ I. The President of the College shall be the president 
of every faculty established by the trustees. He shall, 
when present, preside at all commencements, and shall sign 
all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 

He shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the 
several faculties, and his concurrence shall be necessary to 
every act of each of the faculties ; unless, after his non- 
concurrence, the act or resolution shall be again passed by 
the vote of two-thirds of the entire faculty at the same or 
at the next succeeding meeting of the faculty. 

In case the faculty be equally divided, the president 
shall have a casting vote, in addition to his vote as a mem- 
ber of the faculty. 

In all cases where there shall be a non-concurrence be- 
tween the president and a majority of the faculty present 
at the time, the names of those voting on each side shall be 
entered on the minutes of the faculty, and each member of 
the faculty shall be entitled to have entered on the min- 
utes his reasons, presented at the time (in writing), for his 
vote. 

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the president to take charge 
and have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of 
the grounds adjacent thereto, and of its movable property 
upon the same ; 



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To see that the course of instruction and discipline is 
faithfully pursued ; 

To call meetings of the several faculties, and to give 
such directions and perform such acts as shall, in his judg- 
ment, promote the interests of the college, so that they do 
not contravene the charter, the statutes, the orders of the 
trustees, or the decisions of the several faculties ; 

To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep him- 
self informed of the manner in which the classes are taught ; 

To report to the trustees annually, at the stated meeting 
in October, and as occasion shall require, the state of the 
college, and particularly the manner in which the several 
professors and tutors, and other officers, perform their re- 
spective duties. 

§ 3. In the absence or disability of the president, the 
senior professor in the School of Arts, who shall be in the 
regular performance of his duties, shall perform the duties 
and exercise the authority of the president. 



CHAPTER 11. 

OF THE FACULTIES. 

§ I. The several faculties shall have power in their re- 
spective schools from time to time (subject to the reserved 
power of control by the trustees) : 

To fix the requirements of admission, the course of study 
and the conditions of graduation ; 

To establish rules for ascertaining the proficiency of stu- 
dents, and for determining their relative standing ; 

To establish the rules of conduct to be observed by the 
students, and to punish infractions of the same ; 

To adjudge rewards and punishments ; 

To make all such regulations of their own proceedings, 
and for the better government of their respective schools, 
as shall not contravene the charter of the college, the 
statutes, or any order of the trustees. 

§ 2. No exercise of the powers conferred on any of the 
faculties which may change the terms of admission to any 
school, or the course of instruction in the same, or the re- 
quirements of graduation, shall take effect until at least 
ninety days after the same shall have been submitted to 
the trustees. 

§ 3. Appointments of all officers of grades inferior to 



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that of adjunct or assistant professor, including fellows, 
prize lecturers, and tutors, shall be made by the faculties 
severally of the schools in which such officers are to serve, 
subject to confirmation by the trustees; the number and 
the grade of all such officers and the amount of their com- 
pensation being determined by the trustees. 

§ 4. Each faculty shall keep a book of minutes of its 
proceedings, which shall be submitted by the president to 
the trustees at their meetings. 

§ 5. No officer engaged in instruction shall be employed 
in any occupation which interferes with the thorough, effi- 
cient, and earnest performance of the duties of his office. 

§ 6. The professors in the several schools shall take 
precedence according to the dates of their appointments. 

§ 7. It shall be the duty of the professors, instructors, 
and tutors, to assist the president with their counsel and 
co-operation. 

§ 8. The professors, instructors, and other officers, in the 
several schools, shall present themselves and be ready for 
duty at the college in the week preceding the first Monday 
in October, and shall continue in attendance until the close 
of the exercises on commencement day, except on holidays, 
or when granted leave of absence by the trustees, or as 
temporarily excused by the president. 



CHAPTER III. 

OF THE LIBRARY. 

§ I. The president shall, subject to the trustees and the 
committee on the library, have the general charge and 
control of the library and the rooms containing it, and also 
of the expenditures of all moneys appropriated by the 
trustees for the purchase of books and supplies therefor ; 
he shall appoint all needed assistants and subordinate offi- 
cers, and fix their titles, duties, and compensations, provided 
that the total amount shall not exceed the appropriation of 
the trustees for that purpose ; he shall regularly report all 
such appointments to the trustees ; he shall make and en- 
force by suitable penalties any needed rules and regulations 
relating to the library, its readers, officers, or servants ; and, 
unless otherwise specially ordered by the trustees, he shall 
have charge of all matters pertaining to the college library, 
and the custody of all college publications, works of art and 



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historical interest, etc., belonging to the college, and shall 
make annual examinations of the same, and fix their place 
of deposit, and may make any needed regulations to increase 
their usefulness or secure their safety. 

§ 2. The librarian shall be the executive officer of the 
library, under the direction of the president, and shall attend 
to the execution of all orders, votes, directions, and regula- 
tions. He shall be the custodian of the property of the 
library, and of its files, records, books and papers, and shall, 
when required by the committee on the library, keep full 
record of their proceedings, send notices, conduct cor- 
respondence, and sign and issue orders. All bills on account 
of the library, for books, periodicals, binding supplies, 
administration, or other expenses, shall be examined and 
certified by the librarian, or, in his absence, by the deputy 
duly appointed, and countersigned by the president, before 
being paid. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF OTHER OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ I. It shall be the duty of the superintendent, under 
the direction of the president, to take charge of the boiler 
house and of the heating, ventilating, and lighting apparatus ; 
to employ, control, and discharge all persons employed in and 
about the said boiler house and apparatus, and all janitors, 
watchmen, and other subordinates and servants ; to keep 
the entire grounds of the college and all the buildings there- 
on, and the sidewalks surrounding the grounds, clean and 
free from dust, dirt, snow, and ice, and to care for the coat 
rooms of the college and of its schools ; and he shall have 
care of the college grounds and buildings and of the furni- 
ture and fixtures therein, and shall see that the same are kept 
in good and proper order and in sufficient repair, and shall 
perform such other duties as may from time to time be im- 
posed upon him by the president, or the committee on 
buildings and grounds, or the trustees. 

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the proctor, under the direc- 
tion of the president, to preserve and maintain peace and 
order within the college precincts, and to report all violations 
thereof to the president. He shall also, so far as proper at- 
tention to his regular duties will permit, discharge such 
duties in the library as may be assigned to him by the pres- 
ident. 



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CHAPTER V. 

OF STUDENTS. 

§ I. Every student will be required, as a condition of 
admission to any school, and subsequently at the beginning 
of each succeeding academic year, to write in the matricula- 
tion book to be kept in the president's office, his own name 
and the name, place of abode, and post-office address of his 
father or guardian ; and this book shall indicate the school 
or schools in which the student is conducting his studies. 
The matriculation fee shall be five dollars. 

§ 2. None but matriculated students or graduates of the 
college shall be allowed to attend any of the classes without 
the special permission of the trustees. 

§ 3. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation, provided, 
however, that all tuition fees exceeding one hundred dollars 
($100) per annum will be paid semi-annually, one half at the 
commencement of each session of the college year. 

§ 4. An honorable discharge shall always be granted to 
any student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw 
from the college ; but no undergraduate of the School of 
Arts or the School of Mines, under the age of twenty-one 
years, shall be entitled to a discharge without the assent of 
his parent or guardian, given in writing to the president. 

§ 5. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to 
any school, he shall be presented with a copy of these 
statutes, and of any printed rules and by-laws made under 
them for the government of the students by the faculty of 
the school. 

§ 6. Any matriculated student, except students in the 
undergraduate classes of the School of Arts and the School 
of Mines, may attend any combination of courses permitted 
by the president, by and with the advice of the university 
council. Such student shall pay the fee proper to the 
school in which he takes the greatest number of hours. 

CHAPTER VI. 

OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ I. The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall 
be entitled to have always, in the undergraduate depart- 
ment of the School of Arts, four students to be instructed 
free of charge. 



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§ 2. The Society for Promoting Religion and Learning 
in the State of New York shall be entitled to have always, 
in the undergraduate department of the School of Arts, two 
students in each class, to be instructed free of charge. 

§ 3. The members of the Board of the College, the pro- 
fessors of the School of Mines, of the Law School, and of 
the School of Political Science, and the chaplain of the 
college, shall be entitled to have their sons educated in any 
school of the college free of charge. 

§ 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations 
of the trustees in regard to the standing and scholarship of 
persons allowed free tuition. 

CHAPTER VIL 

OF FOUNDATIONS. 

§ I. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship, 
by the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the 
treasurer of the college, shall be entitled to have always 
one student educated in the college free of all charges for 
tuition. This right may be transferred to others. The 
scholarship shall bear such name as the founder or founders 
may designate. 

§ 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professor- 
ship in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical 
science, or in the literature of any of the ancient or modern 
languages, by the payment of not less than one hundred 
thousand dollars to the treasurer of the college, shall for- 
ever have the right of nominating a professor for the same, 
subject to the approbation of the trustees, who shall hold 
his office by the same tenure as the other professors of the 
college — the nomination to be made by the person or per- 
sons who shall make the endowment, or such person or per- 
sons as he or they may designate. The proceeds of the 
endowment shall be appropriated to the salary of the pro- 
fessor. 

CHAPTER VHL 

OF COMMENCEMENTS. 

§ I. There shall be an annual commencement on the sec- 
ond Wednesday in June, when degrees shall be conferred in 
all the schools. 

At the commencement there shall be exhibited such lit- 



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erary or other performances as the several faculties, with the 
approval of the trustees, may direct. 

I 2. Should there, among the exercises so ordered, be any 
orations or addresses from members of the graduating 
classes, all such performances shall be previously submitted 
for criticism to the president, and no student who shall re- 
fuse or neglect to adopt the corrections or amendments 
pointed out to him, or who shall deliver his oration or ex- 
ercise otherwise than is approved by the president, shall re- 
ceive his degree. 

§ 3. No student neglecting or refusing to perform the 
part assigned him shall receive his degree. 

§ 4. No candidate for a degree in any school shall be en- 
titled to receive the same until he shall have discharged all 
his dues to the college. 

CHAPTER IX. 

OF VACATIONS. 

§ I. There shall be a vacation of all the schools from the 
second Wednesday in June until the first Monday in 
October. 

§ 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures 
on Ash Wednesday, on Good Friday, on public holidays 
established by law, and on such days in each year as may 
be recommended by the civil authority to be observed as 
days of fast or thanksgiving ; and for two weeks, commen- 
cing on the fourth Monday in December, unless the fourth 
Monday shall fall later than the twenty-sixth day of the 
month, and in that case commencing with the third Monday. 

§ 3. The president may, in extraordinary cases, grant an 
intermission for other days, not exceeding one day at any 
one time ; and it shall be his duty always to report the 
same at the next succeeding meeting of the trustees, 
together with the object and the reason for granting such 
intermission. 

§ 4. No professor or other officer of the college shall ex- 
cuse a class or section from assembling at the time and 
place appointed for lecture and recitation, or dismiss a class 
or section after it may have assembled before the expiration 
of the time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of 
the president ; nor, without such consent, shall any class or 
section be excused from the performance of any exercise 
required of them. 



STATUTES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 
' PART 11. 

THE SCHOOL OF ARTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE PRESIDENT. 

§ I. The president shall have power to grant leave of 
absence for reasonable cause, and for such length of time as 
he shall judge the occasion may require. Such leave of 
absence shall be entered upon the minutes of the faculty. 

§ 2. He shall assemble the classes every day except Satur- 
day and Sunday, at a convenient hour, to be fixed by the 
faculty, for the purpose of attending prayers ; and at these 
daily prayers it shall be the duty of each of the members 
of the faculty to be present, unless his presence shall be 
dispensed with by the president. 



CHAPTER n. 

OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ I. The faculty of the School of Arts shall consist of the 
president and the professors engaged in the course of instruc- 
tion, and shall constitute " The Board of the College." In- 
structors and tutors shall have seats at the board on all 
occasions when the conduct or proficiency of the students 
under their charge, in the departments in which they respec- 
tively give instruction, shall be in question, but on no other 
occasion ; but they shall have no vote. 

§ 2. The Board of the College shall appoint a secretary, 
whose duty it shall be to keep minutes of their proceedings, 
and to superintend the necessary printing of all the schools, 
the annual and sextennial registers, and the general hand- 
book. He shall receive a compensation therefor, to be 
fixed by the trustees. 

§ 3. The board shall hold meetings at least once a week 
during term time. 



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CHAPTER III. 

OF ADMISSION. 

§ I. No student shall be admitted to the freshman class, 
at its formation, unless he shall have attained the age of 
fifteen years ; nor to a more advanced standing without a 
corresponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dis- 
pensed with, when, in the opinion of the faculty, there are 
sufficient reasons to justify its relaxation. 

§ 2. Every candidate for admission shall be required to 
present, before examination, a certificate of good moral 
character from his last teacher, or from some citizen in good 
standing ; and students from other colleges shall be required 
to bring certificates from those colleges of honorable dis- 
charge. 

§ 3. Every applicant for admission shall be examined in 
such subjects as the faculty may from time to time pre- 
scribe. All the requirements for admission shall be annually 
published. 

§ 4. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced 
standing until he shall have passed a satisfactory examina- 
tion upon the studies which have been pursued by the class 
for which he applies, as well as upon those required for 
admission. 

§ 5. Students desiring to pursue one or more subjects of 
study less than a full course shall be required to matriculate 
as special students, and shall be permitted to attend any 
such course as the faculty may approve, and they may be 
found qualified to enter upon ; but they will not be regarded 
as candidates for degrees. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ I. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students 
in the School of Arts, to be called the freshman class, the 
sophomore class, the junior class, and the senior class. The 
course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a year, 
and the entire course four years. 

§ 2. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies 
to be pursued in each year, and in each of the departments 
of instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the 
faculty. 



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CHAPTER V. 

OF DEGREES. 

§ I. Every student in the undergraduate department who 
shall have completed the entire course of four years, and 
shall have passed satisfactorily all the examinations required 
of him, shall be qualified to receive the degree of bachelor 
of arts, bachelor of letters, or bachelor of science. 



PART III, 
THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

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§ I. The faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of 
the president and the professors engaged in giving instruc- 
tion in the school. 

§ 2. The faculty shall be authorized to elect a dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such 
duties as the president may delegate to him. 

§ 3. The faculty shall hold stated meetings at least once 
a month during term time. 

CHAPTER n. 

OF ADMISSION. 

§ I. No student shall be admitted to the first class, at its 
formation, unless he shall have attained the age of eighteen 
years ; nor to a more advanced standing without a corre- 
sponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed 
with when, in the opinion of the faculty, there are sufficient 
reasons to justify its relaxation. 

§ 2. The requirements for admission shall be prescribed 
by the faculty of the school, and shall be annually pub- 
lished. 



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§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon 
the studies which have been pursued by the class for which 
he applies ; but graduates and students of colleges and 
schools of science in good standing, who shall have com- 
pleted so much of the course of study as shall be equivalent 
to the requirements for admission to the school, may be 
admitted at the beginning of the second year, or earlier, 
without exarnination, on presenting diplomas or certificates 
of good standing and honorable discharge, satisfactory to 
the examining ofificers. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ I. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students 
in the school, to be distinguished as the first, second, third, 
and fourth classes. The course of study of each of these 
classes shall occupy a year ; and the entire course four 
years. 

§ 2. The subjects of study shall be so grouped as to form 
seven independent courses of instruction, viz., a course in 
civil engineering, a course in mining engineering, a course 
in metallurgy, a course in geology and paleontology, a 
course in analytical and applied chemistry, a course in 
architecture, and a course in sanitary engineering. At the 
beginning of the first year, each student shall elect which of 
the seven courses above mentioned he intends to pursue, 
and, after having made his election, he shall not be 
permitted to abandon the course chosen in order to take 
up another without the consent of the faculty, to be 
given only for reasons of weight, to be stated in the 
minutes. 

§ 3. A plan of the several courses, specifying in detail 
the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each depart- 
ment of instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by 
the faculty. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF DEGREES. 

§ I. Every student who shall have completed the entire 
course of four years, and shall have passed satisfactorily all 



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the examinations required of him, shall be qualified to 
receive the degree of engineer of mines, civil engineer, 
sanitary engineer, metallurgical engineer, or bachelor of 
philosophy. 



PART IV. 
THE SCHOOL OF LAW. 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE WARDEN. 

§ I. It shall be the duty of the warden to see that the 
course of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and 
due discipline observed ; to keep himself informed of the 
manner and efificiency of instruction in the several depart- 
ments ; with the approval of the president to call special 
meetings of the faculty ; and to give such directions and 
perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the in- 
terests of the school, so that they do not contravene the 
charters, the statutes, the orders of the trustees, or the de- 
cisions of the faculty of the school ; to give to the presi- 
dent of the college and to the committee on the School of 
Law, from time to time, any information which he or they 
may require as to the condition or administration of the 
school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the instruction, 
or the performance of duty of any of its officers. 

§ 2. He shall have the power, with the approval of the 
president, to grant leave of absence to individual students, 
for such length of time as the occasion may require. 

§ 3. He shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly con- 
ferred. 

CHAPTER n. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

The faculty shall consist of the president of the college, 
the warden, and the professors of the school. They shall 
meet statedly once a month during the annual term. In 
the absence of the president, the warden, or, in the absence 
of both, the senior professor present, shall preside. 



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CHAPTER III. 

OF ADMISSION. 

§ I. All graduates of literary colleges in good standing, 
and all persons duly certified to have passed the regents' 
examination required by the rules of the Court of Appeals 
of the State of New York, will be admitted without exami- 
nation. Other candidates for admission must be at least 
eighteen years of age, and shall be required to pass an ex- 
amination in such subjects as the faculty may from time to 
time prescribe. All the requirements for admission shall be 
annually published. 

§ 2. Such examinations shall be conducted by examiners, 
alumni of the college, to be appointed by the committee on 
the School of Law. 

§ 3. The examinations shall be held during the week next 
preceding the first Monday in October, and shall be con- 
ducted in such form and manner as may be prescribed by 
the faculty. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ I. There shall be three classes of undergraduate students 
in the Law School, to be called respectively the senior, the 
middle, and the junior class. The course of study of each 
of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course 
three years. 

§ 2. The annual term in the Law School shall commence 
on the first Monday in October, in each and every year, and 
shall close on the second Wednesday in June. The annual 
term shall constitute the collegiate year. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies 
to be pursued in each year, and in each of the departments 
of instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the 
faculty. 

§ 4. The warden, with the concurrence of the faculty, 
shall have power to arrange the hours for lectures and reci- 
tations, as well as to select the text-books for the use of 
the students. 

§ 5. Moot courts shall be held under the direction of the 
faculty, at such times as they may deem proper. The 
mode of proceeding and the assignments of students to 



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take part in the discussion shall be under the direction of 
the warden. 

CHAPTER V. 

OF DEGREES. 

§ I. Every student who shall pass an approved examina- 
tion upon the required studies of the course shall be entitled 
to be recommended to the trustees for the degree of 
bachelor of laws. Should the student not have attained 
the age of twenty-one years at the time of graduating, the 
delivery of the diploma shall be deferred until he shall have 
attained that age. 

§ 2. A student who shall not have pursued the full course 
of study shall be entitled to a certificate, stating the duration 
of his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be 
signed by the warden. 



PART V. 
THE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 



CHAPTER I. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

§ I. The faculty of the School of Political Science shall 
consist of the president and the professors engaged in the 
course of instruction. 

§ 2. The faculty shall be authorized to elect a dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such 
duties as the president may delegate to him. The term of 
office of the dean shall be five years. No salary shall be 
attached to such ofifice. 

§ 3. The faculty shall hold stated meetings at least once a 
month during term time. Instructors in departments not 
otherwise represented, who are giving permanent instruction, 
upon the invitation of the faculty may take part in their 
deliberations, but without a vote. 



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CHAPTER II. 

OF ADMISSION. 

Candidates for a degree in this school must have success- 
fully pursued a course of undergraduate study in this col- 
lege, or in some other maintaining an equivalent course of 
study, to the close of the junior year. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ I. There shall be three classes of students in the School 
of Political Science. The course of study in each of these 
classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course three 
years. 

§ 2. The course of study shall be designed to prepare 
young men for the duties of public life, and shall embrace 
the history of philosophy ; the history of the literature of 
the political sciences ; the general constitutional history of 
Europe ; the special constitutional history of England and 
the United States ; the Roman law and the jurisprudence 
of existing codes derived therefrom ; the comparative con- 
stitutional law of European states and of the United States ; 
the comparative constitutional law of the different states of 
the American Union ; the history of diplomacy ; interna- 
tional law ; systems of administration, state and national, of 
the United States ; comparison of American and European 
systems of administration ; political economy, and statistics. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies 
to be pursued in each year, shall from time to time be pre- 
pared by the faculty. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF DEGREES. 

Students of the school who shall satisfactorily complete 
the studies of the first year shall be qualified, on examination 
and the recommendation of the faculty, to receive the 
degree of bachelor of philosophy ; or (with the concurrence 
of the faculty of arts) the degree of bachelor of arts. 



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PART VI , 
THE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY. 



CHAPTER L 

OF THE FACULTY. 

§ I. The faculty of the School of Philosophy shall consist 
of the president and the professors engaged in the course of 
instruction. 

§ 2. The faculty shall be authorized to elect a dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such 
duties as the president may delegate to him. But the dean 
of the faculty of philosophy shall in no case be the same 
person as the dean of the School of Arts or the secretary of 
the Board of the College. The term of office of the dean 
shall be five years. No salary shall be attached to such office. 

§ 3. The faculty shall hold stated meetings at least once a 
month during term time. Instructors in departments not 
otherwise represented, who are giving permanent instruction, 
upon the invitation of the faculty may take part in their 
deliberations, but without a vote. 

CHAPTER II. 

OF ADMISSION. 

Candidates for a degree in this school must have success- 
fully pursued a course of undergraduate study in this 
college, or in some other maintaining an equivalent course 
of study, to the close of the junior year. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

The course of study shall embrace instruction in logic ; 
psychology ; ethics ; history of philosophy ; paedagogics ; the 
Greek language and literature, to include epigraphy and 
archaeology ; the Latin language and literature, to include 
epigraphy and archaeology ; the English language and lit- 
erature, to include Anglo-Saxon and Gothic ; the Teutonic 



THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. 1 7 

languages and literatures ; the Romance languages and 
literatures ; Sanskrit and Zend ; and the Semitic languages. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF DEGREES. 

Students of the school who shall satisfactorily complete 
the studies of the first year shall be qualified, on examination 
and the recoTumendation of the faculty, to receive the de- 
gree of bachelor of philosophy ; or (with the concurrence of 
the faculty of arts) the degree of bachelor of arts. 



PART VIL 
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. 



CHAPTER I. 

§ I. The University Council shall consist of twelve mem- 
bers, as follows : 

From the Faculty of Philosophy, The Dean, 

One elected member. 2 
" " " Political Science, The Dean, 

One elected member. 2 
" "- " Mines, The Dean, 

One elected member. 2 
" " '' Law, The Warden, 

One elected member. 2 
" *' School of Arts, ex-officio. The Dean, 

Secretary of the 
Board of the College. 2 
To be selected by the president, with especial reference 
to securing rounded representation of subjects, 2 

§ 2. The president shall make his selections after the 
elections by the several faculties. 

§ 3. The terms of the elected and the selected members 
of the council shall be three years, and those first chosen 
shall arrange themselves by lot in classes, so that two shall 
retire every twelve months. 

§ 4. The council shall be called together by the president 
for consultation, as often as, and whenever, it may seem to 



1 8 STATUTES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 

him desirable to do so, and with his approval it may provide 
for stated meetings. 

§ 5. The president, if present, shall preside at all meetings 
of the council, and in case of a meeting in his absence, the 
meeting shall be presided over by one of their own number 
elected by the meeting as chairman, pro-tem. 

% 6. The whole body of professors represented by delegates 
in the University Council may be summoned by the presi- 
dent for consultation, as often as, and whenever, it may 
seem to him desirable to do so. 

CHAPTER 11. 

The University Council shall be an advisory body. In 
particular it shall advise the president as to all matters 
affecting the master's and the doctor's degree, the corre- 
lation of courses, the extension of university work in new and 
old fields, and generally as to such matters as the president 
may bring before it. 



PART VIIL 
DEGREES. 



CHAPTER I. 

§ I. No one shall be eligible for the master's degree who 
has not obtained his first degree either in arts, in science, in 
law, in letters, or in philosophy, in Columbia College, or in 
some other institution maintaining an equivalent curriculum, 
and who has not followed thereafter, for not less than one 
year, a course of study satisfactory to the president, under 
one or more of the university faculties of law, mines, 
political science, or philosophy. Recommendations for the 
master's degree may proceed from any one or more of these 
faculties. The president in all such matters shall advise 
with the University Council, for the purpose of securing 
equality of requirement in the different schools. 

§ 2. The master's degree may be given for study in absentia, 
after a three years' course of study approved by the pres- 
ident, to an alumnus of the college in any of its schools, 
who shall present himself for examination, and shall satis- 
factorily pass such examination. ' 



AMENDMENTS. 1 9 

CHAPTER II. 

No one shall be eligible for the doctor's degree who has 
not obtained his first degree either in arts, in science, in law, 
in letters, or in philosophy, in Columbia College, or in some 
other institution maintaining an equivalent curriculum, and 
who has not followed thereafter, for not less than two years, 
a course of study satisfactory to the president, under one or 
more of the university faculties of law, mines, political 
science, or philosophy. Recommendations for the doctor's 
degree may proceed from any one or more of these faculties. 
The president in all such matters shall advise with the 
University Council, for the purpose of securing equality of 
requirement in the different schools. 

CHAPTER III. 

§ I. All work hitherto known as graduate work shall here- 
after be called university work, and in all matters affecting such 
work the faculties having it in charge shall vote by depart- 
ments. All graduate work hitherto carried on in connection 
with the School of Arts, in subjects covered by the faculty 
of philosophy, shall hereafter be under the charge of the 
faculty of philosophy. All graduate work in mathematics 
and the natural and applied sciences, whether now carried 
on in connection with the School of Arts or the School of 
Mines, shall hereafter be under the charge of the faculty of 
the School of Mines. 

§ 2. The faculties having charge of university work shall 
have power to formulate the courses they propose to offer. 
Suggestions as to combinations of courses and the like, 
emanating from the council, shall go into effect only upon 
the approval of all the faculties concerned. Either the 
council or any faculty may submit questions for consid- 
eration to each other. 



PART IX, 



OF AMENDMENTS. 

No amendment, alteration, or repeal of these statutes, or 
of any part thereof, shall be made until four weeks after the 
same shall have been presented in writing at a meeting of 
the trustees. 



